I have grown tired of my high disk usage every time I open a lot of tabs or have just closed a memory heavy game. So I decided to partition my HDD wherein there is a "dedicated" partition for the Pagefile on the outer part of the disk.
P: partition size: 8320 MB
pagefile: 8192 - 8192 MB (128 MB "allowance")
The results was surprisingly better! Now every time I close CIV V I don't have to wait for the system to write all those junk data from the RAM to the pagefile. If you're thinking it's probably because It's a fresh install and I don't have much going on in my HDD yet, I assure you that my HDD has never been 1/3 full. I store my bulky files in an External HDD.
Please note though that this isn't some sort of "Make Your PC Faster for FREE!" tutorial. I just want to share the problem I've been having and how I "fixed" it. I actually don't have objective proof of the speed increase. This probably won't have any effect if you've never experienced HDD bottlenecking whatsoever. But if you do have this kind of problem and don't mind doing all of this, please do report your experience in this thread.
If you absolutely insist this is some kind of voodoo please feel free to explain what my problem actually was and what fixed it. Thank you.
PS. This forum is awesome!
P: partition size: 8320 MB
pagefile: 8192 - 8192 MB (128 MB "allowance")
The results was surprisingly better! Now every time I close CIV V I don't have to wait for the system to write all those junk data from the RAM to the pagefile. If you're thinking it's probably because It's a fresh install and I don't have much going on in my HDD yet, I assure you that my HDD has never been 1/3 full. I store my bulky files in an External HDD.
Please note though that this isn't some sort of "Make Your PC Faster for FREE!" tutorial. I just want to share the problem I've been having and how I "fixed" it. I actually don't have objective proof of the speed increase. This probably won't have any effect if you've never experienced HDD bottlenecking whatsoever. But if you do have this kind of problem and don't mind doing all of this, please do report your experience in this thread.
If you absolutely insist this is some kind of voodoo please feel free to explain what my problem actually was and what fixed it. Thank you.
PS. This forum is awesome!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 10 Home Single Langauge 64-bit
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo Y410P
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-4700HQ
- Memory
- Samsung 4GB DDR3L 1600 MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia Geforce 750M
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 x 768
- Hard Drives
- Seagate 1TB HDD
- Internet Speed
- meh.
- Browser
- Mozilla Firefox / Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition